Refugees

Cameron is very proud that we give vast sums to camps in Syria, pity no one has told him the people in these camps are malnourished

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/30/benedict-cumberbatch-stuns-theatregoers-anti-government-speech-refugees

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/17/asylum-seekers-eviction-four-weeks

This is appalling. Asylum seekers being made homeless.

www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/22172

Direct link about the boats.

The government has just stopped two rescue boats in the Mediterranean.

www.ekklesia.co.uk/news/columns/segger

stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news/time-to-stop-bombing-and-make-peace-in-syria-and-yemen

Yes, please.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/25/undocumented-children-facing-deportation-from-uk

Read this and was appalled.
A private company, Capita, hounding a girl who was brought here by her parents when she was nine. I know this new law has been mentioned before, but I haven't read such a terrible indictment of the system before.
How can we do this, in all humanity?

Who gave Capita the right to do this? Who voted for it?

The United Nations high commissioner for refugees said on Saturday at the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva that the world had waited far too long to respond to the refugee crisis unfurling in the Middle East.

Antonio Guterres told Reuters "Only when the poor enter the halls of the rich, do the rich notice that the poor exist".

They obviously haven't read about the white helmets.

Sky Poll: Support Rises For UK Troops In Syria

news.sky.com/story/1559122/sky-poll-support-rises-for-uk-troops-in-syria

Of those interviewed, 46% of respondents said they would support "boots on the ground", while 31% were against any such operation.

About 73% of responders said they supported bombing specific threats to Britain in Syria, after the Prime Minister revealed two Britons had been killed in an airstrike by a British drone in Syria.

I read this month Switzerland agreed to take 3000 Syrians over 18 months and 1500 registered refugees from Italy and Greece. granjura will know more.

Perhaps not mentioned because it is not a member of the EU Jane10 - was it just EU countries on the list?

www.swissinfo.ch/eng/migration-crisis_swiss-are--too-restrictive--over-syrian-refugees/41672076
This link says they are taking some, but are being restrictive over their status.

Erm. Sorry if I've missed something here but the only European country not mentioned at all in the 'who should take refugees' debate is Switzerland. I know its not in EU but to a fleeing refugee its a very prosperous, spacious country. Lots of wealthy people and their money take refuge there. Surely Switzerland could fit in a few refugees? Its where I would be making for....

Mark Steel's take on Syria.

stopwar.org.uk/news/no-problem-bomb-both-sides-in-syria-and-the-country-will-be-fixed-in-a-jiffy

petra
^You state that the the bulk of Syrian refugees only want a safe and civilised life. Well why aren't they seeking asylum in Croatia or Slovenia.
Both countries I have visited many times, they are beautiful.
I can support anyone who doesn't want to stay in Serbia, it's a s..th..e^

I suppose it is not long since what was Yugoslavia - Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo and others were embroiled in their own civil war - Muslims, Christians, Orthodox Christians, Catholics. It's still a sensitive region.

Roseq, this is what Tony Blair was responsible for before he was peace envoy
djen I don't know how I can bring myself to even type his name.

In reply to Eloethan's post

This is Aden

Imshe Yallah!

What is the equivalent to EFF off in arabic?

I wonder what would be there reaction if Germany replied "That is very kind of you, but how about we build some mosques here and you build some churches in Saudi and encourage Christians to use them ?"

Saudi Arabia's offer to build mosques all over Germany is very questionable, I do hope Germany doesn't sell itself down the river the way we have. Saudi's brand of Wahhabism will cause problems for them, just like it has here. This offer is hardly magnanimous from a state that is hard line and disgustingly intolerant towards other faiths as well as it's own Shia minority. They have done bugger all to help the refugee crisis and this offer merely comes across as a cynical ploy in obtaining an even firmer foothold in Europe.

(and you will take that seriously, won't you?)

Eloethan of course I know what's happening in Yemen!

Am I supposed to sort that out as well? On another thread perhaps.

Iam that's ok (me being touchy)

Lilygran and petra, I agree with you and I don't know where I've said otherwise. [shrug]

Jingl think of the people who left Germany in the 1930s and thought they would be safe in France or Holland. The Syrian refugees want to go somewhere they can be sure there won't be a civil war. And where they have a chance of getting a job.